John,

When Congress passed the largest Pentagon budget in history late last year ($886 BILLION) to fund bombs, weapons, and war crimes, roughly half of that money was allocated directly to military contractors.

Just this week, the Senate voted on a $95 billion package for war, including $14 billion to Israel’s military as it commits genocide.

Why do my colleagues keep spending so much on war, rather than investing in their communities? For some of them, it’s because they’re making a profit.  

Between 2019 and 2021, 97 members of Congress or their family members invested in weapons contractor stocks, and 25 of them sat on committees directly responsible for shaping national security policy while they traded and profited off those stocks. Just last year, U.S. lawmakers made 96 transactions in weapons stock, including 8 since October 7.

That’s why I just introduced the Stop Politicians Profiting from War Act to prohibit members of Congress, their spouses, and their dependent children from having any financial interests in corporations that do business with the U.S. Department of Defense, including banning members from trading defense stocks.

Join me and our allies in adding your name as a grassroots co-sponsor of my new Stop Politicians Profiting from War Act to ban members of Congress from profiting off of endless war.

My colleagues continue to funnel billions of American tax dollars to the very same defense contractors that many of them are invested in and taking campaign donations from. This is unacceptable.

Members of Congress should not be able to use their positions of power to get rich from defense contractors while voting to pass more funding to bomb innocent civilians.

The amount of money our government spends on the military is impossible to justify when our neighbors are struggling to put food on the table, fighting to keep a roof over their heads, and rationing their medication.

My constituents sent me to Congress to invest in life and in everyday working people. We need more members of Congress with those priorities.

Add your name as a grassroots co-sponsor of my Stop Politicians Profiting from War Act today.

It is shameful that some of my colleagues are profiting financially when they vote to support wars and weapons manufacturing. Members of Congress were elected to serve the public, not to serve their stock portfolios.

Always serving you,

Rashida